Usually means: Actively searched for or desired.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sought:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sought: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sought: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sought: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sought: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sought: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sought, sought: Wordnik
  7. sought: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sought: Wiktionary
  9. sought: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sought: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sought: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sought: Dictionary.com
  13. sought: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sought: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sought: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sought: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sought: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sought: Rhymezone
  19. Sought: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sought: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sought: Free Dictionary
  22. sought: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sought: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. sought: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sought: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sought: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sought: Idioms

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Definitions from WordNet (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  being searched for ("The most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum")
adjective:  that is looked for ("The long sought relatives")


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